The NYT assures us that Obama was “incensed” over yesterday’s incredibly bone-headed idea to buzz the Manhattan skyline with a 747 and several F-16s, momentarily freaking out New Yorkers in a fashion reminiscent of Mohammed Atta. CBS says he was “furious.” He should be, since the orders came right out of the White House, from White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera (and were apparently uninherited from Bush). The Washington Post today wrote that the “White House later issued a profuse apology over the incident.” Really? Is there something I’m missing because this is the only apology I’ve seen, and it came from Caldera himself, in a somewhat understated statement:
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